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British bakers create cake art for Stylist

For our art issue, we got the nation’s best bakers to recreate six classics, using icing for paint and sponge as their canvas.

There is something about The Great British Bake Off that has the Stylist office in its grip. From the gravity-defying sponges to the beautifully crafted cupcakes, TGBBO, which is back on BBC2 on Tuesday nights, has elevated baking into an art form. So, we asked the UK’s best bakers to recreate six masterpieces in cake form, then asked the show’s exacting master baker Paul Hollywood to judge the finished pieces…

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, baked by Bea’s of Bloomsbury

Overall presentation: “The composition is perfect.”

Likeness to artwork: “It’s fabulously like the original and I like its flamboyance.”

Technique: “It’s very intricate and I love the use of real and sugar flowers.”